As that story notes, a clean-sheet reinvention of everything isn't how Toyota's "kaizen," or continuous improvement ... increasingly built in a different way. (This is also why Ford is doing ...

Toyota has adhered to a distinctive philosophy that emphasizes continuous improvement (kaizen, in ­Japanese) and what it calls “respect for people.” And it has repeatedly found a way to ...

James May:Apparently these early morning exercises are a way of stimulating productivity ... philosophy of lean production called "kaizen". Pioneered by Toyota, today it's used throughout the ...